http://loltraitorlol.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] loltraitorlol.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2009-11-14 10:27 pm

We're the only ones to turn to [Closed, in-progress]

WHO: Loki and Starscream. BE AFRAID.
WHERE: Starscream's abandoned warehouse thingy
WHEN: Saturday evening I guess
WARNINGS: derrrr loki and screamerfais
SUMMARY: Starscream wants to learn Magic. Loki wants to learn Science. Deals are made. Oh dear.
FORMAT: der quicklog because I can't brain tonight

[stands in the old warehouse, looking up at the darkened ceiling. It's cleaner now, sure; the doors have locks, and there's even security cameras, but it remains empty. He keeps it around for just this sort of thing]

[Part of him wonders what he's doing, exactly - the last time he made a deal with a god didn't work out so well for him. But, then again...]

[He wants to know. And he's willing to teach in return...]
hiddles: 𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖗 (Default)

protip: if you mess up I won't be able to tell

[personal profile] hiddles 2009-11-20 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
And you believe you can enlighten me?
hiddles: 𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖗 (my eyes are up here)

[personal profile] hiddles 2009-11-20 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
Then, by all means, do so.
hiddles: 𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖗 (Default)

[personal profile] hiddles 2009-11-20 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, 'tis all a string of commands. Linked through two absolute values, a wide variety of effects can be accomplished through a complex system. As I said, I am not unfamiliar with technology, recently having found myself sequestered in a country populated largely by mechanical simulacrums of its overlord. Often did I watch him at work.

Though, I shall say have never felt the need to attend the cinema. The question I pose for you next, is, what makes you certain that this "Queen" is, what you term a human machine?
hiddles: 𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖗 (are you sure about that)

[personal profile] hiddles 2009-11-22 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yet, there seems little in this universe that capable of creating one such as her. And are not beings such as this created, by their nature? I do not mean to suggest anything of your origins, but I know something of Midgard, and there men can always be found behind the machine. Furthermore, I would submit that this creature has little control over its counterpart or else no defined purpose. The intermittent malfunctions do little but raise chaosβ€” yet if raising chaos were her goal, it could be much more efficiently accomplished.

Nature is quite the mutable thing. You are not as you once were, if you'll permit me a bold truth. Or, to illustrate: I myself was born in a land quite removed from this one, but taken at a young age to be raised by foreign peoples. Always was I made to be an outsider, due to the blood that yet courses through me, but a thousand years of distance made me foreigner to the nation of my birth as well. Thus I am a man without a country, prince of two realms and of none.

But you must forgive me my poetics, for I understand the analogy was not meant to be exact. All I mean to say is that, but for her, this world seems fairly mundane. She clearly possesses the means to travel between the planes. If she be of earth, it may not be of this earth.

[this next bit is said much more lightly. an abrupt change of tone.]

Yet mayhap I am simply being contrary. For such is my nature: given the choice between zero and one, I should pick three.
hiddles: 𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖗 (here i'm being helpful)

[personal profile] hiddles 2009-11-25 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
From what I have learned of the internet, 'tis a place both fascinating and vulgar. But there are many here with similar talents, dominion over machinery, yet none have yet constructed a device which could even hope to rival hers. In my world, there is but one schematic from which all planar doors are drawn from, at least, those of the mechanical type: and buried within this machinery, there is magic. Others have copied the prototype without knowing its nature, yet it remains bonded to the circuitry with each duplication.
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[personal profile] hiddles 2009-11-28 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
That the transdimensional machines I am familiar with have always followed a vastly different formula, created by mortals though they may have been. It does not surprise me, for whose nature is more changeable than that of a human? 'Tis unwise to paint them all in one brush.